The New Testament in the Original Greek

Table of Contents

Prefatory remarks
Part 1. The Need of Criticism for the Text of the New Testament:
1. Transmission by writing
2. Transmission by printed editions
3. History of present edition
Part 2. The Methods of Textual Criticism: Section 1. Internal Evidence of Readings:
1. Intrinsic probability
2. Transcriptional probability
Section 2. Internal Evidence of Documents
Section 3. Genealogical Evidence:
1. Simple or divergent genealogy
2. Genealogy and number
3. Manner of discovering genealogy
4. Complications of genealogy by mixture
5. Applications of genealogy
6. Variable use of genealogy according to unequal preservation of documents
Section 4. Internal Evidence of Groups
Section 5. Recapitulation of Methods in Relation to Each Other
Section 6. Criticism as Dealing with Errors Antecedent to Existing Texts:
1. Primitive errors
2. Removal of primitive errors by conjecture
Part 3. Application of Principles of Criticism to the Text of the New Testament: Section 1. Preliminary Chronological Survey of Documents:
1. Greek MSS
2. Versions
3. Fathers
4. Documentary preparation for this edition
Section 2. Results of Genealogical Evidence Proper:
1. Determination of the genealogical relations of the chief ancient texts
2. Characteristics of the chief ancient texts
3. Sketch of Postnicene textual history
4. Relations of the principal extant documents to the chief ancient texts
5. Identification and estimation of readings as belonging to the chief ancient texts
6. Review of previous criticism with reference to ancient texts
Section 3. Results of Internal Evidence of Groups and Documents:
1. Documentary groups as limited by reference to primary Greek MSS generally
2. Documentary groups as limited by reference to the best primary Greek MSS
Section 4. Substantial Integrity of the Purest Transmitted Text
Part 4. Nature and Details of this Edition
Appendix 1. Notes on select readings
Appendix 2. Notes on orthographical alternative readings
Appendix 3. Quotations from the Old Testament.

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